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...chief risk in any ideologically based curriculum is that it can promote tribalism and downplay the value of discovering common cultural ground. The very idea of the melting pot, of assimilation, indeed of a common American identity, is under fire in some academic circles. Warns Diane Ravitch, adjunct professor of history and education at Columbia: "If we teach kids to connect themselves to one group defined by race or language or religion, then we have no basis for public education. We need to retain a sense of the common venture...
...then there was the dirt. In the late 19th century, when curators were presumably less anal than they are today, dirt was considered a positive adjunct of museum art; it lent mellowness and venerability. Ryder's studio was filthy, a pack rat's cave. "It is appalling, this craze for clean-looking pictures," he once complained. "Nature isn't clean." To distinguish between the dirt, the dust, the brown varnish, the pigmented glazes and the goo underneath and then to stabilize the surface to preserve some notion of Ryder's intentions have always been a conservator's nightmare...
Hope has also maintained a few ties to academia over the years: she was once a lecturer at Harvard Law School, and has served as an adjunct professor of law at both Georgetown and Pepperdine universities...
...work and war. Like the stereotypes of the snobbish English or the immoral French or the crass Americans, such caricatures are generally created by one's enemies, often in times of war. "There is such a thing as national character, but it changes," says William Manchester, a Wesleyan University adjunct professor of history and author of The Arms of Krupp. "And the German national character has changed. The Germans are united by language, by culture. And young Germany -- which is most of Germany today -- is also united by a horror of the Second and Third Reichs...
...California State University, Long Beach. Edwards, the author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (copies sold: 1.4 million), has limbered the lobes of executives at companies as varied as IBM and Patagonia by helping them learn the basic perceptual skills required for drawing. Says Robert Kelley, adjunct professor of business administration at Carnegie-Mellon University: "The vital question American businesses face is to determine if they are going to require creativity on a regular basis. If so, they need talent in place, and no one knows how to do this very well...